Another book club session has come and gone @CityofJoburgZA Meadowlands library.
A quiet place to discuss and be heard, is a sanctuary.
PS. Library maintenance still needs extreme improvement.
Show up on Sat, 26 Sept (09:00–13:00) at:
📍 JHB City Library (Beyers Naudé Sq)
📍 Florida Library (Cnr Church St & 3rd Ave)
Study, return books, meet the JCA team & sign the petition for permanent citywide access! ✍️
We have lots of incredible #NewBooks in our libraries! Use your #Greenwich#Library card + PIN to reserve your chosen reads here: https://t.co/0vcTSkAku4 and you can collect at a library of your choice in the borough, or use #Libby on your digital device! 📚 #LoveYourLibrary
[STATEMENT]
JCA salutes retiring Heritage Head Eric Itzkin for 35 years of service. Joburg relies on ethical public servants who keep it running despite political turmoil.
Read full release: https://t.co/H63cZCNOjk
Happy Birthday to three literary legends - Bram Stoker, Kazuo Ishiguro and Samantha Shannon, all born on the same day!
From butlers and bone seasons to bloodthirsty counts, few writers have given us worlds quite like theirs. Cheers to Scorpio season! 🥂
Saturdays are often the only day working families, students, and readers can access public libraries. 📚
Award-winning Joburg author Terry Kurgan shares why weekend library access is so vital:
"Saturdays are the most practical days to use a library for reading, research and
Saturday. Free book access, denied.
The @TheJCA_ , Johannesburg Friends of the Library and the Johannesburg Heritage Foundation 🔰have a partition out for the return of Saturday library services in #Jozi. https://t.co/92PZk1HJXX
@CityofJoburgZA@SAMWUnion@imatu
Imagine picking up a book as a child and, a few years later, seeing your own story in one.
10 years ago, the library at Lower Kabete Primary School was opened in partnership with Afetchi, giving learners a space to discover the joy of reading.
Every Wednesday during our #ReadToTheBeat reading challenge we have a musical craft from 10:30-11:30 at #WoolwichLibrary! This week we made these cool spin drums and had fun decorating them with cool designs - come along next week for microphones! #LoveYourLibrary
There in the World of Reading: Ep 2.
Aunt reads bird book to 4 year old nephew, nephew is quiet, points at pictures, the book ends. Aunt, not sure nephew understood.
Later, nephew recounts every detail of bird book to father. #librarylife#readerscommunity
Happy National Tattoo Day! We love seeing how our patrons permanently carry their love for the Library with them!
📷: tahinos tattoo, jessejamestattoo, ellie_s.tattoo, and rkraiza, on Instagram
There in the World of Reading: Ep 1.
Someone leaves a place of darkness, war and blood where they lived for half a month of their life, then it ends.
They drift, lost, finally they land in a small room full of manuscripts in Paris. #readingcommunity
@CityofJoburgZA
administration. Bad for libraries. E.g.
- @LibbyApp (the audio & ebook service) no longer works JHB library card holders
- Toilets no longer have sanitary pad bins
- No plastic covers for new books BECAUSE... tenders!!!!
#cityfunds#jozi
@CityofJoburgZA
administration. Bad for libraries. E.g.
- @LibbyApp(the audio & ebooks service) no longer works for JHB library card holders
- Toilets no longer have sanitary pad bins
- No plastic covers for new books
BECAUSE... tenders!!!! #cityfunds#jozi@contentcowboy
@CityofJoburgZA administration. Bad for libraries.
E.g.
- @LibbyApp(the audio & ebook service) no longer works JHB library card holders
- Toilets no longer have sanitary pad bins
- No plastic covers for new books
BECAUSE... tenders!!!! #cityfunds#jozi@contentcowboy